causation
noun
the action of causing or producing.
causations
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pluralof causation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The city of L.A. has still not declared an emergency regarding our untenable and inhumane homelessness crisis, nor taken significant steps to address the causations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Deisseroth says his laboratory research informs the psychiatric patient care that he continues to give, yet many of the landmark studies are about causations and chemical pathways in genetically modified mice, not humans.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021
Details of the Arizona tragedy will emerge and provide a fuller picture of the factors and causations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2011
Chronic Inflammation.—A variety of types of chronic and subacute inflammation are met with which, owing to ignorance of their causations, cannot at present be satisfactorily classified.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Roads were too bad, cities too difficult of access, travellers too rare, books too incapable of transmission, for any solution which should explain the chain of coincidences into a chain of natural causations.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
